1. a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, or group.2. the study of family ancestries or histories.3. descent from an original form or progenitor; lineage. — genealogist, n. — genealogie, genealogical, adj.

1. a theory that history is determined by immutable laws.2. a theory that all cultural phenomena are historically determined and that all historians should study a period on its own merits.3. a search for the laws of historical evolution.4. a profound or an excessive respect for historical institutions, as traditions or laws. Also historism. — historicist, n., adj.

1. the body of literature concerned with historical matters.2. the methods of historical research and presentation.3. an official history. — historiographer, n. — historiographic, historiographical, adj.

History

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated “The lesson of history” —Russell Baker See Also: CHARACTERISTICS, NATIONAL

Carried his history with him like a tattooed sailor —Alice McDermott

History is a hill or a high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are —G. K. Chesterton

Chesterton continues this simile as follows: “Without some such contrast or comparison, without some such shifting of the point of view, we should see nothing whatever of our own social surroundings. We should take them for granted, as the only possible social surroundings.”

History is floated like a bond issue on the fat of banks —Marge Piercy

History is written to order like the Sunday funnies —Marge Piercy

This is one of several similes pertaining to history in Piercy’s poem, For Shoshana Rihm.

History … like some lump of viscid porridge sliding slowly down a sink —Lawrence Durrell

record - anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events; "the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques"

recital - a detailed account or description of something; "he was forced to listen to a recital of his many shortcomings"

Boston Tea Party - demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea

account, chronicle, history, story - a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"

Quotations"The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles" [Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto]"History is philosophy from examples" [Dionysius of Halicarnassus Ars Rhetorica]"There is properly no history; only biography" [Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays]"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today" [Henry Ford]"History is past politics, and politics is present history" [E.A. Freeman Methods of Historical Study]"What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it" [G.W.F. Hegel Philosophy of History]"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" [James Joyce Ulysses]"The world's history is the world's judgement" [Friedrich von Schiller]"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes" [Voltaire L'Ingénu]"That great dust-heap called `history'" [Augustine Birrell Obiter Dicta]"History [is] a distillation of rumour" [Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution]"History gets thicker as it approaches recent times" [A.J.P. Taylor English History 1914-45]"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce" [Karl Marx]

A posthumous tribute to the eminent d'Aubigne scholar Andre Thierry (1924-2000), to whom is due the rehabilitation of Agrippa d'Aubigne's Histoire Universelle and its magisterial (now standard) reedition (1981-2000), this volume contains a brief biography of Thierry, a bibliography of his scholarly works, seven of his most interesting (and not always easily accessible) essays, and nine new essays by well-regarded senior seiziemistes on historiographical issues raised by d'Aubigne's (1552-1630) works and time of religious and civil strife.

Nor, despite Robbins' history of science training and her careful delineation of the craze for natural history in the period (a craze which prompted nobles to maintain private menageries, fashionable Parisiennes to attend scientific lectures and the reading public to make Buffon's encyclopedic six-volume Histoire naturelle a best seller) is it, like Keith Thomas's Man and the Natural World, (2) a history of man's changing relationship to his natural environment.

This volume is a reworking of the author's i993 doctoral thesis on the prose Thebes, and includes discussions of Wauchier de Denain's Vie mon seignerr seint Marciau, two vernacular Lives of St Eustache (one in prose and one in verse), Aucassin et Nicolette, 12 Lai d'Aristote, and Join ville's Vie de saint Louis alongside the Theban section of the Histoire and anciennce Cesar.

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